IncQuery-Integrate22-20220607.pdf
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The document discusses the need for holistic systems engineering and breaking down disconnected silos. It proposes a conceptual framework using lightweight traceability and digital thread analytics to address completeness, correctness, and consistency challenges when transferring engineering data between systems engineering tools and detailed design tools. This approach aims to improve communication, reduce defects, and connect previously separated disciplines and tools.
IncQuery-Integrate22-20220607.pdf
- 1. The Genesis of Holistic Systems Engineering Istvan Rath CEO, IncQuery Group The Digital Engineering Symposium A Zuken Company
- 2. The IncQuery Group is an international team of engineering experts with a strong research and development background. We support systems engineers in several industries to create tailormade solutions. Automotive professionals, aircraft engineers, space engineers all trust us to make their systems work exceptionally, safer, faster, and more reliable. Who We Are
- 3. Global Partner Network Demonstrated history of successful collaboration with leading international organizations
- 4. The promised benefits of MBSE • Improved communication • Fewer defects / higher quality • To improve not just quality of SE, but the overall quality and value of engineering across the organization • Systems architecture as the “single source of truth” • Silos remain disconnected even though the goal of MBSE is to connect silos • Closed product ecosystems • Lack of good APIs and interchange formats The MBSE Value Chain is broken No global consistency Difficult customization Data lock-in Vendor lock-in
- 5. Digital Threads - The impact of disconnected silos Systems Engineering remains an isolated discipline – One of many silos next to mechanical, electrical, ALM/PLM, … As disconnected silos, what is the interface between architecture and disciplines? – It is often a document produced from an MBSE tool – Consequence: data reentry and/or copy-paste – No guarantee of completeness, correctness and consistency A lot of time and money is wasted! 8
- 6. Example: transition to detailed design Transition to Detailed Design V-Model
- 7. The silo problem of “transition to detailed design” Video Drone Model Cable/Harness Systems Engineering Detailed Design SysML extension for ECAD (Electrical Computer-aided Design) (modeling-languages.com)
- 8. The 3C Challenge: Building High Quality Model of Models • Completeness – Make sure all my components and functions exist both in SE and ECAD • Correctness – If component A has is of type “PCB” (in SE) è it should be mapped to a PCB device (in ECAD) • Consistency – If a connection transfers an item between components A and B (in SE) è there is a wire carrying the corresponding signal between devices A and B (in ECAD)
- 9. What causes 3C problems? • Input error • Forgetting/missing something • Copy/paste error • Incorrect mappings • Roundtripping gone bad • Change
- 10. Our take Discipline-specific, automated bridge tools that create the digital thread Overlaid layer of digital thread analytics that can expose parts of the digital thread depending on the need/use-case Vendor-neutral federated toolchain
- 11. The E3.GENESYS Connector Video Drone Model Cable/Harness Topology Editor Systems Engineering Detailed Design Transfer Logical Architecture Diagrams Requirements Parameters Verification Requirements Expose the Model Design Envelope
- 12. Building the Electrical Viewpoint • Components, signals, and ports are analyzed • Signals are of type electrical • Ports have pin:signal assignments, part number, or are of type electrical • Components are of type ECU, PCB or are part of an electrical signal
- 13. The E3.GENESYS Interface 1 1 Navigate the model repository 2 Connect the model, map elements, and load into E3 2 3 3 View model details to provide context, criteria, constraints, etc... 4 4 Provide feedback on observed parameters to verify back to the architecture
- 14. Video demonstration of the GENESYS.E3 Connector
- 15. Our take Discipline-specific, automated bridge tools that create the digital thread Overlaid layer of digital thread analytics that can expose parts of the digital thread depending on the need/use-case Vendor-neutral federated toolchain
- 16. • Efficiently extract your engineering data from proprietary silos IncQuery Suite Change the way you do MBSE! • Set up detailed validation reports and analysis dashboards, and automated workflows by web-based interfaces that integrate seamlessly with modern tools • Create a unified, searchable, and analyzable representation of your complete digital thread
- 17. • Automatically validates your SysML or other engineering projects, using standard rule sets (e.g., OMG UML, SysML, UPDM, UAF, or others), or custom-built rules • Efficiently extracts your engineering data from open/ proprietary tools and repositories • Searches, queries, and analyzes your complete digital thread • Empowers the creation of in-depth, interactive, visual documents and dashboards by the incorporated Jupyter open-source ecosystem Automated quality gates Analysis Dashboards Engineering Queries Integration Bridges • Builds continuous integration/validation workflows, enabling the next generation DevOps for MBSE • Unique insight into your digital thread • Maintains a uniform, easily accessible, structured knowledge graph • Uses powerful graph query languages such as VQL, SPARQL • Uses ElasticSearch full- text search • Provides automated and customizable bridge components to perform information flow between tools
- 18. The IncQuery Suite Connects to:
- 19. INCQUERY MODEL VIEWER An easy-to-use web application to visualize and browse your projects in a structured and collaboration-focused way. INCQUERY DESKTOP A powerful add-on to SysML tools that lets you execute model queries and validation rules locally. INCQUERY SERVER An enterprise-class, scalable application that extracts data from silos and maintains the knowledge graph. INCQUERY INTEGRATOR DevOps-ready stand-alone applications to facilitate automated information sharing between engineering tools, with full traceability. INCQUERY VALIDATOR DevOps-ready stand-alone applications that provide automated model quality reports, based on standard and custom rules. INCQUERY ANALYZER A web-based workbench incorporating the powerful Jupyter ecosystem to validate and analyze your complete digital thread.
- 20. • Integrated with • the popular Jupyter ecosystem through open-source Python libraries and the OpenAPI interface • documentation management systems such as the OpenMBEE View Editor or Atlassian Confluence • Easy-to-use analyst workbench to manage automated validation and analysis reports • Supports standards such as SysML, UPDM, UAF • as well as open-source libraries (SAIC Digital Engineering Validation Tool) • Custom rules can be defined by queries (e.g. SPARQL, ElasticSearch) • E.g. GENESYS.E3 naming consistency rule ààà
- 21. 3C Analysis for the GENESYS.E3 Connector • Step 1: Initial mapping performed with GENESYS.E3 Connector • Result: – Partially complete (Subsystem mapping is disabled by default) “If a connection transfers an item between components A and B (in SE) è there is a wire carrying the corresponding signal between devices A and B (in ECAD)” • Inconsistent signal allocations
- 22. Step 2: Adding missing wiring and signal allocation
- 23. 3C Analysis continued • Step 3: Re-run the validation • Result: One pair of allocation problems is resolved 2021 WSRC – The Genesis of Holistic Systems Design | Enrique Krajmalnik and Istvan Rath 26
- 24. Progress tracking • Historical analytics as the “progress bar” of a complex engineering process – Model Integrator / Reviewer can follow the “Requirements to System Design” transition process on a version control dashboard – Track progress via KPIs as the mapping completeness is improved – Identify and fix correctness issues quickly
- 25. Takeaways • Disconnected / loosely connected silos are a significant problem today - breaking the MBSE Value Chain • We proposed a conceptual framework to fix this problem – Light-weight traceability approach – Digital Thread Analytics to tackle the 3C Challenge • Applicable to other tools / scenarios as well! • https://www.zuken.com/us/product/model-based-wire- harness-design/ • https://incquery.io
- 26. T h a n k Y U istvan.rath@incquerylabs.com István Ráth, CEO peter.lunk@incquerylabs.com Péter Lunk, Solutions Manager